Frank wrote on Mar 21
st, 2025 at 4:12pm:
FD wrote on Mar 21
st, 2025 at 3:59pm:
aquascoot wrote on Mar 21
st, 2025 at 2:10pm:
FD wrote on Mar 21
st, 2025 at 1:40pm:
America Inc is fu
cking with us. Big Pharma wants our PBS planted. Big Tech wants our social media laws ploughed.
Elon, Jeff, Zuck, the lot. Turns out the big fella was with them all along. When his plan to tariff Aussie farmers comes out, you'll know.
MAGA hates our guts.
National sovereignty, innit.
Trump as CEO of USA Pty Ltd is standing up for the shareholder ( the citizens of the USA).
How is that a problem ?
Why should Trump give a flying F about what some Australian hater thinks.
If you have a problem with that maybe elect Peter Dutton who is more likely to stand up for his shareholders then a ideologically captured leftie from the Labor party or the greens
Why should the person you so dismissively refer to as "Trump" care about an ally with a free trade agreement?
I could provide you with the answer of every US prez since Roosevelt, dear, but a question first if I may:
Why would
you care about your Australian friends, neighbours and fellow countrymen?
You clearly despise them. If you had a farm, you'd be fenced, ploughed, planted and irrigated by the one known as he.
You. Let's see what has prompted your impotent little fit of pique, paki cameleer:
The government argues the companies, which raise revenue from Australian advertisers, have an obligation to support Australians' ability to access quality news content.
Facebook, Google to be hit with tax in push to fund news
The government wants to impose a new tax to push the tech platforms to make funding agreements with news organisations.
But the CCIA calls the proposal a "coercive and discriminatory tax that requires US technology companies to subsidise Australian media companies".
"Currently, the two companies targeted by the law pay $AU250 million annually through deals that were coerced through the threat of this law," the submission says.
"However, with the threat of the new 'incentive' tax from the Australian government (rate yet to be determined), this cost is likely to significantly increase."
The association also complains about proposed local content quotas for American streaming services. The quotas would force companies like Netflix to fund Australian productions, similar to rules imposed on traditional TV networks.
"Australia's online video streaming market is estimated to generate up to $2.3 billion ($3.7 billion) of annual revenue, with the majority of it earned from US companies," the CCIA submission says.
"If the Australian government pursues the 20 per cent expenditure mandate it has floated in the past year, that would put this revenue at risk."
The federal government announced plans to impose local content quotas on streaming services more than two years ago. But it has more recently backed away from the idea amid questions over how it would fit with the Australia-US free trade agreement.
The CCIA, which advocates for open trade, does not argue for new tariffs on Australia. But it suggests they could be used as a bargaining tool.
Ah! So an interest group made a submission and cameelpiss paki is feeling
farmed instanto.
Come come, you decrepit old cadaver, the owners of said corporates currently have an office in your DL's administration, across the road from 1600 Pennsylvania Ave, in the Eisenhower Executive Wing, known colloquially as the
Department of Government Efficiency.
They currently fund your DL directly, to the tune of at least $240mil in direct campaign funds, excluding the investment in the inaugural ball, the Trump Org's loans and any additional crypto and untraceable NFTs they sling your DL's way.
Aquascoot, a "noble Aussie hobby farmer" and lantana-picker, stands against his fellow jolly countrymen. This is, of course, his right as a citizen of our fine country.
You, a naughty old cheese-thief, have no rights at all. Aquascoot's preferred Prime Minister, the "noble Dutto", would deport your type in a flash, but do you know?
There are those such as us who would fight to the death for your right to stay.
After all, we grew here, you flew here.
More fool us, eh?
SEND THEM BACK !!!!
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